In honor of celebrating Betsy's completion of 28 years of life, we spent a lovely weekend on the far northern end of Okinawa. We spent much of the time at Okuma Joint Forces Recreation Facility. There we did such things as SCUBA diving (off a boat, for once), camping (although we never got in our tent, opting instead to try sleeping in the back of our van; if there had been any wind at all, there's a chance that we could have slept thru the raucous noise from young Marines in the campground), biking & hiking. And, of course, eating at the Surfside Restaurant. From there we drove to the northern tip, Cape Hedo-misaki, where we took way too many photos. Then we checked out a hiking park nearby with some very cool rock formations & vegetation. On our way home, we stopped at a roadside beach on the Pacific side & did some snorkelling. Yes, we got a LITTLE sun & a FEW bug bites! ;-)
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Sunday, August 05, 2007
10,000 Eisa Dancers!
We ventured with John, Amanda & Cayce down to Naha & its infamous Kokusai Dori on a gorgeous Sunday to witness the annual "10,000 Eisa Dancers" performing in the streets. Hoping to avoid a headache in parking (both in terms of time & cost) we decided to park at Jusco & take the monorail, which turned out to be quite easy & kinda fun! We'd seen Eisa dances previously but this was the first time to see quite so many spectators & definitely so many young kids dancing in the groups.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Festival at Sunset Mihama Beach
We heard there was a festival going on quite close to our apartment on Sunset Beach (we often ride our bikes or even walk by there). Sure enough, there was! They had yummy festival food & we saw some cool fireworks!
Friday, August 03, 2007
Biking in the morning
Betsy has started biking to work (2 days in a row now) with a coworker & friend (Kristen Pon). And this morning (2nd day) Josh joined them until they hit Gate 1 of Kadena AFB, where the gals went inside & Josh kept going around the base! He made it successfully all the way around, but admits that he did get off his bike on one long, arduous hill. Maybe next time he won't have to (he doubts it). He ended up completing about 14.5 miles total. Here is the route he took:
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